Vidya Charan Shukla

• Chhattisgarh polls: Voting begins in first phase amid high security

  Amid heavy security, 18 constituencies in the Naxal strongholds of Bastar and Rajnandgaon will go to polls today in Chhattisgarh.

• Special monitoring cell for VIP movement in Naxal-hit areas in Jharkhand

  A special monitoring cell with the Jharkhand Special Branch is monitoring the movement of important leaders in Naxal-dominated areas in the wake of the Maoist attack on Chhattisgarh Congress leaders last month.

• Congressman VC Shukla to be cremated at his farm house at Raipur on Wednesday

  The mortal remains of veteran Congressman Vidya Charan Shukla would be consigned to flames at his farm house on the outskirts of Raipur on Wednesday, family sources said.

• VC Shukla, the man who handled media during Emergency with an iron-fist

  Vidya Charan Shukla, a Congressman by origin who changed parties, had a long and chequered political career but he will remain best known for his iron-fist handling of the media during the infamous Emergency.

• Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Congress leader VC Shukla still remains critical, say doctors

  Doctors treating Vidya Charan Shukla, who received bullet injuries in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, on Monday, said the veteran Congress leader is still in a very serious condition.

• Congress appoints Charan Das Mahant as new party chief in Chhattisgarh

  The Congress today appointed Charan Das Mahant, a Member of Parliament from Korba, as the new party chief in Chhattisgarh, days after its state president was killed in a Naxal attack.

• Congress to relaunch 'parivartan yatra' near Naxal ambush site in Chhattisgarh

  Unfazed by the dastardly attack by Maoists, Opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh will soon resume its 'parivartan yatra' from Keslur village near Jiram Ghati, the spot where its convoy was ambushed on May 25.

• Chhattisgarh attack: Vidya Charan Shukla shows signs of improvement, say doctors

  Former Union Minister and Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla, who was injured in the Chhattisgarh Naxal attack, has shown further signs of improvement, but he is still critical and remains in Intensive Care Unit.

• Had to stay back in the US for medical appointment, explains Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today cleared the air over his extended stay in the United States in the wake of the deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh. He said he had got permission to stay back for medical appointment.

• Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Injured Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla remains critical, say doctors

  Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla, who was critically injured in the Maoist attack on party leaders in Chhattisgarh last Saturday, continues to remain critical, doctors attending on him said today.

• Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Madhya Pradesh government offers job to wife of martyr

  Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has offered a government job to the wife of martyr Rahul Pratap Singh who was killed in the Naxal attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh on last Saturday.

• Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla shows signs of improvement, but remains critical

  Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla, who was critically injured in the Naxal attack on party leaders in Chhattisgarh last Saturday, has shown a little improvement but continues to be critical, doctors attending on him said today.

• Chhattisgarh attack: 'Sir, I take your leave', last words of security officer who shot himself

  Prafful Shukla lay under one of the cars caught in Saturday's deadly Naxal ambush and fired a steady stream of bullets back at the attackers. The Maoists, perched at a vantage point on hillocks, shot the tyres of the car and it came crashing down upon Mr Shukla, the personal security officer of senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla.

• Chhattisgarh attack: He had promised to be back home, says son of officer killed by suspected Naxals

  Among those killed in Chhattisgarh's deadly Naxal attack on Saturday was Prafful Shukla, the personal security officer of Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla. The security officer reportedly shot himself when he realised that he could not protect the man he was meant to protect.

• Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: VC Shukla critical, on dialysis, say doctors

  The condition of Vidya Charan Shukla, former Union minister and Chhattisgarh Congressman who was injured in Saturday's Naxal attack, is stable but not out of danger, doctors at Gurgaon's Medanta Medicity Hospital said.